MAS airlines and their fondness for retiming

I booked a ticket to come back to Sibu for the weekend (arriving Saturday night, leaving early tomorrow morning - Monday) just to attend to two birthday celebrations. The flight I was due to be on was 2:50 pm from Kuching to Sibu...and close to the departure time, the dreaded R-word came over the PA - it has been retimed. The ground crew distributed refreshment vouchers (which entitles you to a meal and a drink) at the airport restaurant (canteen would be a better description). It seems that the airport restaurant has new management and most of the major reconstruction at Kuching airport has forced it into a little nook by the side of the second floor. I wanted a sandwich but the sandwiches were all sold out so I settled for some fried rice and a 100 Plus drink (it's an isotonic rehydration drink that's very popular amongst drug users in Malaysia). The flight has been retimed to 4 pm and then to 4:40 pm and I feared that this would be a repeat of my previous business trip to KL ...

08:23:09 October 23, 2005, Sunday (PDT) Source: sixthseal.com

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